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Waiting to be severely disappointed on the #UK#election. I don't believe the young generation cares enough about their #future to go #vote. Would have to be a direct threat to #instagram or their favourite celebrity for that to happen.

Except, in this election, there is a direct threat to the #internet which today's youth depend on and are not aware they are losing.

The #US is becoming a more backwards place one #Trump backed decision at a time. This is something that you won't get back. Once the Internet becomes basically cable TV for you, what content you're allowed to consume online is forever out of your hands.

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MOST EXCELLENT : )

Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde has a new privacy-oriented startup. Today he launches the domain registration service Njalla, which offers site owners full anonymity, shielding them from the prying eyes of outsiders. "Think of us as your friendly drunk (but responsibly so) straw person that takes the blame for your expressions."

In recent years, copyright holders have taken aim at the domain name industry, calling on players to take a more active approach against piracy.

One of the often heard complaints is that website owners use Whois masking services to ensure their privacy.

There are several companies dedicated to offering privacy to domain registrants and today, rightsholders will see a well-known adversary entering the market.

Former Pirate Bay spokesperson and co-founder Peter Sunde has just announced his latest venture. Keeping up his fight for privacy on the Internet, he’s launching a new company called Njalla, that helps site operators to shield their identities from prying eyes.

The name Njalla refers to the traditional hut that Sámi people use to keep predators at bay. It’s built on a tall stump of a tree or pole and is used to store food or other goods.

On the Internet, Njalla helps to keep people’s domain names private. While anonymizer services aren’t anything new, Sunde’s company takes a different approach compared to most of the competition.

Njalla

With Njalla, customers don’t buy the domain names themselves, they let the company do it for them. This adds an extra layer of protection but also requires some trust.

A separate agreement grants the customer full usage rights to the domain. This also means that people are free to transfer it elsewhere if they want to.

TorrentFreak spoke to Peter Sunde who says that the service is needed to ensure that people can register domain names without having to worry about being exposed.

“Njalla is needed because we’re going the wrong way in society regarding people’s right to be anonymous. With social media pressuring us to be less anonymous and services being centralized, we need alternatives,” Sunde says.

“All key parts of the Internet need to have options for anonymity, and the domain name area is something which was never really protected. At best you can buy a domain name using ‘privacy by proxy’ services, which are aimed more at limiting spam than actually protecting your privacy.”

As co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Njalla might also get some pirate sites as customers. Since Njalla owns the domain names, this could lead to some pressure from rightsholders, but Sunde isn’t really worried about this.

“The domain name itself is not really what they’re after. They’re after the content that the domain name points to. So we’re never helping with anything that might infringe on anything anyhow, so it’s a non-question for us,” Sunde says.

For those who are interested, Njalla just opened its website for business. The company is registered with the fitting name 1337 LLC and is based in Nevis, a small island in the Caribbean Sea.

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The future of the open #internet — and our way of #life — is in your hands

The one article all Internet users should read but unfortunately few mainstream users will. You don't know how important something is until you lose it.

"This is not speculative. This is really happening. There are historical precedents. There are present-day examples.

If you do nothing, we will lose the war for the open internet. The greatest tool for communication and creativity in human history will fall into the hands of a few powerful corporations and governments."

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Firefox 52

Added support for WebAssembly, an emerging standard that brings near-native performance to Web-based games, apps, and software libraries without the use of plugins.

Enabled multi-process Firefox for Windows users with touch screens

Added user warnings for non-secure HTTP pages with logins. Firefox now displays a ?This connection is not secure? message when users click into the username and password fields on pages that don?t use HTTPS.

Implemented the Strict Secure Cookies specification which forbids insecure HTTP sites from setting cookies with the "secure" attribute. In some cases, this will prevent an insecure site from setting a cookie with the same name as an existing "secure" cookie from the same base domain.

Enhanced Sync to allow users to send and open tabs from one device to another.

Fixed

Various security fixes

Improved text input for third-party keyboard layouts on Windows. This will address some keyboard layouts that have chained dead keys, input two or more characters with a non-printable key or a dead key sequence, input a character even when a dead key sequence failed to compose a character

Changed

Removed support for Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) plugins other than Flash. Silverlight, Java, Acrobat and the like are no longer supported.